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Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Learning Through a Service Learning Programme with Older Adults Living in Poverty in a High-Income Country: A Descriptive Qualitative Study. Guerra-Marmolejo, Cristina Morante-Garcia, Wladimir Berthe-Kone, Ousmane Chica-Pérez, Anabel Dobarrio-Sanz, Iria Granero‐Molina, José Ortega-Ávila, Ana Belén Aprendizaje servicio Investigación activa en educación Enfermería - Estudio y enseñanza superior Background: Living in poverty negatively affects the biopsychosocial health of older adults. Nursing students need to develop competence to promote health and self-care behaviours amongst older adults living in poverty in high-income countries. Aim: To explore nursing students’ perceptions of a service learning programme aimed at promoting health and self-care among older adults living in poverty in a high-income country. Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted with 37 nursing students recruited from a university in Southeastern Spain. Participants completed a service learning programme in which they conducted preventive home visits to older adults living in poverty. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis. Results: Three key themes were developed: (1) service learning as a different way of learning, (2) as an active learning approach to bridge the theory–practice gap, and (3) to provide insight into an unknown side of nursing. Conclusions: By providing opportunities for active, experiential learning in real-world contexts, service learning was perceived by the nursing students as a methodology that helps to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Participating in a service learning programme with older adults living in poverty not only fosters emotional engagement, reflective practice, and the development of essential non-technical skills in nursing students, but it also prepares them to advocate for older adults living in poverty in a highincome country 2025-04-07T09:56:40Z 2025-04-07T09:56:40Z 2025-04-07T09:56:40Z 2024-12-10 journal article Guerra-Marmolejo C, Morante-García W, Berthe-Kone O, Chica-Pérez A, Dobarrio-Sanz I, Granero-Molina J, Ortega-Avila AB. Nursing Students' Perceptions of Learning Through a Service Learning Programme with Older Adults Living in Poverty in a High-Income Country: A Descriptive Qualitative Study. Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Dec 10;12(24):2493. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12242493. PMID: 39765920; PMCID: PMC11727984. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38390 10.3390/healthcare12242493 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Attribution 4.0 Internacional MDPI